Ryan Dempster is realistic and he seems to want to pitch for a contender, so it’s no surprise that he sounds cool with waiving his 10-5 rights. Here is talking about a possible trade:

“You’re in a situation where if it does happen, they are going to do what’s best for the Chicago Cubs, and I’m all for that … I don’t know what direction they want to go, I don’t know any of those answers. Whatever it ends up being, I’ll have to take a look at it and see what’s the best for me, best for the Cubs and I respect that and I understand that … Hopefully I’m here, but if not it’s somewhere that can ultimately give them the best opportunity to improve the Cubs for the future.”

He made the proper noises about wanting to help the Cubs win now, etc., but nope, it doesn’t sound like he’d be broken up by going to a contender. And given how he’s pitched this year, a lot of contenders could use his services.

Dempster would be willing to give up his hard won 10-5 privileges to leave the Cubs? Hell, that’s like giving up your plush Victorian stateroom for a mere lifeboat seat on the Titanic. Who’d’a thunk it?

You’re letting your better judgment be clouded by nationalistic sentiment. Trading for Dempster just to return him to Canada would be the baseball equivalent of Meech Lake. Better: we’ll send you Tweeter for Lawrie, then you can trade Tweeter to the Cubs, who are desperate for a .230-hitting first baseman with a .140 RISP, for Garza. We’ll move Lawrie to third, then move the Hanster behind the plate, and send John Buck off to the Soylent Green plant. Everybody wins.

Hilarious. I’ve fished bluefish in a feeding frenzy – they’ll go after unbaited hooks, shadows on the water, plastic package wrappers and floating cigarette butts, but no blue I’ve ever hooked hit the bait harder or with with less conscious predetermination. You are a hopeless, pathologically obsessed dummy, and on top of that, you’ve gotten so predictable that even a celebrity golf tournament couldn’t be as boring.

It will come as no surprise to anyone who has followed your tedious history of witless trolling here that you didn’t realize something.

Incidentally, are there any other grammatical rules or conventions upon which you would like to pronounce another crock of misinformation today, or was “neither/nor” the limit of your ignorant bumptiousness on this subject? Now, if you’d like, you could always launch a disquisition on “lie and lay” or the formation of possessive plurals.

The fact that you use the term “trolling” pretty much tells anyone all they need to know about you.

No thanks…not interested in discussing any lies or lays with you. That kinda frightens me, actually. Especially when you add the fact you appear to want to role play where your some kind of teacher/disciplinarian.